Hi, I'm Padraig Lamont
I've always enjoyed programming, and so I tend to do it a lot.
I am passionate about building high-quality and impactful software projects in diverse areas. I am also very interested in the nature of human knowledge and memory. Some articles and projects that I'm proud of are listed below!
Notable Projects
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I created RoyalUr.net, a website where
over 500 people each day play the Royal Game of Ur. The Royal Game of Ur
is an ancient Mesopotamian racing board game, that dates back to 2500BC.
It is considered to be a predecessor to Backgammon. As of writing, there
are about 400 games played every day on RoyalUr.net. This project is also
open-source.
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I was a part of creating, and I continue to maintain,
The Misinformation Game,
a social media simulator built to study people's behaviour when they
interact with social media. A paper
about this tool is currently under revision for the Behavior Research Methods
journal. This project is also
open-source.
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I built Tyche,
a Python library for building belief models and reasoning
logically about them. Belief models are represented as
knowledge bases of entities, with probabilistic beliefs
about the entities, and probabilistic relationships between them.
The probability of beliefs holding can then be queried using
aleatoric description logic.
The library also contains a novel approach to learning the
probabilities within belief models based upon observations,
which has showed promise. It's a bit technical, but I really
like it.
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I also played a part in the creation of
PubMed Connections.
PubMed Connections is a tool to convert the
PubMed dataset
into a Neo4J graph database, alongside a website to visualise the
contents of the database. The project has a focus on visualising
the authors of articles in PubMed, along with their relationships
to one another. The goal of this project was to analyse and
visualise the collaboration of academics.